[Foundation-l] Knol: on the bright side of things...

[Florence Devouard]

Knol allow us to track massive copyright violations.


Example: 
http://knol.google.com/k/knol/system/knol/pages/Search?nodeId=32qv6k5e4j8yx.0#

This author copied a collection of french speaking wikipedia articles. 
All are taggued cc by 3.0.

Now, if you go to this one for example:
http://knol.google.com/k/maxime-seligman/thalassothrapie/32qv6k5e4j8yx/13#

On the right hand side, you'll see

Similar Content on the Web

spa.fr 100%
distanteyes.net 100%
wikipedia.org 100%

So, I clicked on distanteyes...
http://distanteyes.net/la-thalassotherapie.html?00ae24bc0e7eeb85a75e1e95743234ab=5915bde6e3eed210f82d1ea04d09e61c

100% copied from Wikipedia. No licence, no mention of Wikipedia, no link.

And I clicked on spa.fr
http://www.spa.fr/la%20balneotherapie%20et%20la%20thalassotherapie.php
Copyright © 2007 La maison du spa


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